How does a magician (who happens to be a world-famous speaker) make a global pandemic disappear by pivoting his entire life, family, and business?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Vinh Giang - Mad Scientist, Obsessive Magician, Disobedient Dad.

Timestamps
0:48 - Tell me about your tattoo.
3:30 - "I feel like America was home for me."
4:15 - The journey of becoming a magician.
5:25 - "If I left my packet of cards at home, I left my confidence at home, I left my personality at home, I left everything at home."
10:35 - "I said, 'Can you come home with me and tell my dad the exact same thing you just said? That was brilliant.'"
15:30 - How do you create luck?
16:55 - "That's the price you have to pay to be an early mover."
21:40 - "That's how most of the top performers become top performers. They were preparing when everyone else was sleeping."
24:50 - It wasn't that you were just doing magic. You were magical.
26:53 - "From my mom, to her 'I love you' is 'Have you eaten yet?'"
29:35 - "I'm just an empty human being. I'm just a showman with no substance..."
31:15 - "It's like riding a bike and only using one pedal."
34:01 - "We've got to stop trying to put things in boxes all the time because life is way more complicated than that."
39:30 - "Lenny is funny. You're not funny, stop trying to be like Lenny."
46:34 - "That one sentence made me decide to stop speaking and to come home."
51:50 - The focus is on creation. Not wealth.
54:20 - How do you get your students comfortable with unknown?
55:25 - "A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician."
58:12 - "Do improv."

Links
https://www.stageworkshop.live/virtua...
https://www.facebook.com/askvinh